Robert P. Ellis

Robert P. Ellis was born in Binghamton, New York on July 16, 1935. He graduated from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) and taught at Boston College while acquiring his M.A. He has also studied at Fordham University, Harvard University, and Middlebury College. He retired from Worcester State University after teaching English there for thirty years. In addition to "Francis Bacon: The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman" he has written many articles on literary and historical topics for a variety of publications such as Salem Press.

He also devotes much time writing local history in Northborough, Massachusetts where he has lived since 1966. These include "Northborough in the Civil War: Citizen Soldiering and Sacrifice" (History Press) and contributions to several books published by the Northborough Historical Society. For twenty years he has written regularly for The Hourglass, the newsletter of the Society. He has written the text for"Northborough Through Time" (Fonthill Media), which will be published in 2015.

Married to Christine Quaglia for fifty years in 2015, he is the proud father of three chidden. Aside from his reading and writing, his interests include, since the 1940s, vegetable gardening, traditional jazz, and the St. Louis Cardinals.